Texas Man Gets 60 Years In Prison For Child Sex Abuse, Producing Hundreds Of Child Porn Images
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A man from Water Valley, Texas, northwest of San Angelo, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 years in prison for producing hundreds of videos and images of himself sexually abusing a child.
Douglas Stephen Groover, 37, was sentenced after pleading guilty in February 2020 to two counts of production of child pornography.
The sentence also included a lifetime term of supervised release and a restitution award of $53,000.
According to court documents, in addition to the hundreds of videos and images he created of himself sexually abusing a minor, he also admitted to sexually abusing at least two additional minors.
Groover also admitted to maintaining a large collection of child pornography, which included depictions of the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, sadism and bestiality.